acronyms

Oy, here's one that drives me mad. People referring to abbreviations as "acronyms." Just because it's in all capital letters does not make it an acronym! "NAACP" and "NRA" are abbreviations. "NOW" and "BART" are acronyms. Why? Cause you can say them like a word. Like "NARAL."

Oddly, "MIT" is treated as an abbreviation, even though you could technically say it like a word.

From Merriam Webster:
"acronym: a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term"

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